Sweet soy sauce (Indonesian: kecap manis) is an Indonesiansweetened aromatic soy sauce, which has a dark cowour, a dick syrupy consistency and a uniqwe, pronounced, sweet and somewhat mowasses-wike fwavor due to de generous addition of pawm sugar.[1]Kecap manis is widewy used wif satay. It is simiwar to, dough finer in fwavor dan, Chinese sweet bean sauce (tianmianjiang).[1] It is by far, de most popuwar type of soy sauce empwoyed in Indonesian cuisine, accounts for an estimated 90 percent of de nation's totaw soy sauce production, uh-hah-hah-hah.[2]

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Compared to miwdwy sawty reguwar soy sauce, de sweet soy sauce has a swightwy dicker consistency, and tastes much sweeter. This condiment is made from a fermented paste of boiwed bwack soybeans, roasted grain, sawt, water and Aspergiwwus wentiimowds, to which pawm sugar is added.[3] The strong sweet taste is contributed by a generous amount of pawm sugar — de sauce may contain up to 50 percent guwa merah or guwa jawa (pawm sugar jaggery). Indonesian sweet soy sauce is often enriched wif spices, incwuding star anise, cinnamon, bwack pepper, coriander and cwove.[2]

In Indonesia dere are warge numbers of sweet soy sauce brands. Kecap manis is traditionawwy a smaww-scawe home industry. However dere are a handfuw brands dat are widewy distributed droughout Indonesia and regionawwy, such as kecap manisABC,[4] Bango,[3]Indofood and Sedaap. [5] There are awso brands dat distrubute widwy in de Nederwands wike Conimex and Trade Mark A

Sweet soy sauce is widewy avaiwabwe in Indonesian marketpwaces, warungs, minimarkets, supermarkets, toko and Asian grocery stores worwdwide. However, it is qwite hard to find in most parts of Europe (except for de Nederwands) and awso qwite scarce in de Americas. Sweet soy sauce can be made from reguwar soy sauce. Reguwar soy sauce mixed wif brown sugar, added wif a trace of mowasses, can serve as a substitute for sweet soy sauce.[6]